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"Brooklyn, due to scheduling errors we will no longer be playing the House of Vans show that was originally announced for Thurs August 25th and is now changed to a day earlier on Weds August 24th. We promise to make it up in the near future. See you soon." -[All Pigs Must Die]That leaves Cold Cave and Converge on the 8/24 lineup with two bands TBA.
All Pigs Must Die are welcoming their new LP God Is War via Southern Lord on August 16th. The band is playing Power of The Riff next week and was recently featured on the POTR mixtape.
APMD added a new show on Oct 1st in New London, Connecticut supporting Integrity with Salvation, Incendiary, Shoot to Kill & Revenge. All dates below...
AUG 12 Casbah / San Diego San Diego, CA
AUG 13 ECHOPLEX / Los Angeles ECHO PARK, CA
AUG 15 Elbo Room / San Francisco San Francisco, California
AUG 17 Branx / Portland OR Portland, Oregon
AUG 18 Neumos / Seattle Seattle, WA
OCT 1 El N Gee New London, CT, us
Comments (57)
Now if House of Vans could just do away with the metal all together, the world would be a better place
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 3:48 PM
Yea 3:48 lets just make every free show hipster friendly. Fuck off.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 4:00 PM
Important News Alert: Effective immediately all live shows are hereby cancelled until further notice. That saves you from having to keep re-posting all the endless barrage of cancellations.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 4:06 PM
I have no problem with metal, in theory, 4:00pm. I just don't like all the angry, sweaty dudes that attend these things. If you were there for last Thursday's Glass Candy show, you might have noticed something different in the audience. They're called girls.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 4:09 PM
Yeah, I prefer jaded hipsters with their arms folded espusing their I-don't-need-to-acknowledge-anyone-beneath-me attitude while seeing puddles of PBR drool. I win!
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 4:12 PM
wow. metal/hardcore isn't for everyone? what a revelation.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 4:19 PM
I recall people DANCING. Not beating each other up OR folding their arms.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 4:21 PM
"wow. metal/hardcore isn't for everyone? what a revelation."
if by everyone you mean anyone over 19, then i agree
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 4:24 PM
will there be waring crews at this show? Man you gotta love hardcore. Seriously, it keeps every mouth breathing mongoloid distracted and away for decent shows. Salut hardcore!
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 4:31 PM
Black Sabbath is so different from this garbage that people don't even refer to them as metal anymore. I thought they were reclassified as "Stoner Rock" with Dead Meadow and the like years ago.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 4:32 PM
Yo, Integrity better stay in New London, yo. cuz they ain't welcome in Mystic or Stonington.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 4:38 PM
yeah, that Chubby fresh dude ain't welcome in New Haven or E. Danbury.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 4:41 PM
as a man of taste, frohawk will not be at any of these shows
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 4:54 PM
Do you know what it's like to run a joke into the ground? It's what happens when you make the same frohawk joke 6 times a day in every post. Have you ever touched a woman before, 5:02?
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 5:31 PM
hey 5:31 the frohawk doubles as a mangina. So eat crap and poop.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 5:39 PM
I hope it makes you feel like a nice strong wee little man to refer to any music with balls and precision as "sausage rock."
If you want fucking sensitivity and feelings and shit there is no shortage of that type of music out there. Girls will even join you at those shows. And some of the dudes who want to let lose and go ape shit at a hardcore show will be there too. They just might not be feeling as superior as you as an insecure little man making fun of music that stimulates the lizard brain.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 5:59 PM
I find all the comments about girls not being at the shows hilarious.
Hey 4:09, There's plenty of other places to meet 20 yr old greasy, smelly, herpes infested hipster girls besides a show. Like maybe the Woods bar on a Saturday night.
If you rather watch some whiny boy cry baby music or pretentious drivel while staring uncomfortably at groups of young cunts that you don't have the balls to talk to, go ahead.
A bunch of dudes in their 30's that might already have serious girlfriends or wives and grew up with Hardcore and Metal want to let out a little aggression and have a good time? So what? It's not your scene, your fresh out of some liberal arts school, mommy paying your rent, no worries, it's not for you man. Your life is too good to have any aggression. Own it. Comment some more on the Delicate Steve thread or something.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 6:30 PM
I'm so glad it's not just me that has to defend the reasonable side here for once.
5:59's and 6:30's posts should be pasted every time one of these hardcore/metal/etc. articles comes up.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 6:53 PM
^ have you everyone thought about jogging or some other normal adult way of dealing w/ stress. Participating in a lunkhead music scene designed for adolescent males is not a good look.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 6:55 PM
Umm 30+ year old dudes in little outfits hanging out at shows they are at least a decade too old to be performing at (not to mention being in the audience of) is not reasonable. It's actually really creppy.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 7:01 PM
the rest of you fucks will be at tuneyards or some other corporate "fest" waving around neon totem poles or whatever weenie douchebag art students do.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 7:15 PM
I for one don't care about these lame commmenters. APMD only have five songs and are one of the best bands of the year, any fan of music has to be impressed with how much thayve accomplished only slightly riding on the hope conspiracy's coattails. sorry they won't be playing :-(
also how many hipster fucks are gonna be into american nightmare now that Wes is in cold cave... yeesh, hope they don't reunite anytime soon
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 7:16 PM
Jesus...Integrity was around when I was in high school and I'm 35. And they were terrible! That they are still at it is mind blowing. That's just pathetic.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 7:36 PM
A good look? Little outfits? It's about a personal preference of music dickbags! I enjoy all different types of music. And who are you to tell me how to deal with my stress? How about I go running as well as go listen to music that I like.
I GUARANTEE that I dress better than you when I go to work everyday. Also, I don't own ONE pair of cargo ANYTHING. You little twats are obviously more into fashion and trying to get pussy than actually enjoying music. And you know what? That's OKAY! Again, OWN IT! Keep living your sheltered and privileged lifestyle and fuck off.
I guess I should listen to a 25 yr old and "grow up" (because ANYONE who's never had to stress rent, food or any other real life problem is an expert on doling out how to be a "grown up" advice) and go jogging and listen to 80's rip off bands that you like because you were too fucking young to be around to listen to the actual bands they're ripping off with their watered down imitation.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 7:44 PM
no skinny little rich kids with crappy mustaches beget shitty music. get that right
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 8:12 PM
as somebody in my late 30's, i can oh so relate to bon iver and all those other sensitive modern "AOR" garbage that i'm supposed to like. give me this any day.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 8:15 PM
A lot of old dudes throwing haymakers at ghosts in this thread.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 8:30 PM
I really don't get cracks about the quality of chicks at shows like this. I've been going to indie rock shows with regularity - though I don't have a faggot hipster exterior - since college, and the girls are never very attractive. There may be more of them than at a metal show, but that's only a good thing because most of the guys at indie rock shows are pretty unattractive and uncool as well.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 9:21 PM
Let the bodies hit the floor. Haha if you over 21 and into this ish you got some issues.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 11:02 PM
"Let the bodies hit the floor. Haha if you over 21 and into this ish you got some issues."
what does it mean when you're over 21 and going to strip karaoke or "fake proms"?
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 11:16 PM
All I know is Converge will own any bands playing this year at House of Vans.....
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 11:25 PM
This show smells like ball sweat. Highschool dudes get a pass....the rest of you dudez is lame.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 11:35 PM
This show is in New London because of some dumb gangsta shit. Fuck it, and fuck the culture it came ftom.
Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2011 11:48 PM
yes, this is a perfectly acceptable thing for a grown man to be doing. Quit making excuses losers.
Posted by Anonymous | August 9, 2011 12:25 AM
i can't wait to riot at house of Vans! perfect riot-party, let's party, let's riot. vans are on my feet!
Posted by Anonymous | August 9, 2011 12:49 AM
9:21 - Your insistence on using homophobic hate speech just further exemplifies the stupidity of your ridiculous scene.
Posted by Anonymous | August 9, 2011 1:49 AM
I love reading these comments. That being said, metal/hardcore > beach house & other faggot shit you listen to.
Posted by Anonymous | August 9, 2011 4:54 AM
You're correct, 4:16: I'm completely illiterate. In fact, I can't read most of the posts or comments on this page. I just come here to talk about hummus and insert MEH into the names of bands I feel are mediocre. You, on the other hand, are a fully evolved, bipedal ape who likes push his sweaty body against other grown men because he's so ANGRY about the fact that he's white, employed (gainfully, perhaps) and living in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest country in the world.
Posted by Anonymous | August 9, 2011 10:04 AM
Who's ever complaining is a pussy.
@4:08 Punks not dead.
Posted by Anonymous | August 9, 2011 10:07 AM
why is there this presumption that because somebody likes aggressive music that they're somehow angry all the time? maybe we just like it loud, menacing and enjoy the adrenaline rush of listening to loud guitars and some guy screaming his ass off. i can't relate to the faux hedonism of the "let's wear costumes and party" crowd nor the "i'm in touch with my feelings" singer songwriter types that are all the rage with so called "grownups".
Posted by Anonymous | August 9, 2011 11:57 AM
That's cool, 11:57. I respect your right to an adrenaline rush, if that's what this drivel provides for you. I just don't understand why they have to ruin perfectly good lineups at HOV with bands like Pigs Must Die and Ceremony. They should just open up another free warehouse venue called Satan's Dungeon where the doom metal sausage flows alongside blood of goats and virgin hipster girls bussed in from Podunk, Iowa.
Posted by Anonymous | August 10, 2011 2:43 AM
you guys are all fucking babys. get off here, and stop arguing about what music is 'better.' its like arguing about what food tastes better. first and last post here ever.
Posted by Anonymous | August 14, 2011 10:53 PM
5:50- All Pigs Must Die is a reference to Animal Farm by George Orwell. Read a book, moron.
Posted by Anonymous | August 19, 2011 6:44 PM
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January 11, 2006
UPS – For When a Senator Needs it to Get There!
Kennedy and Specter Go At in Hearings
It seems ever-popular Teddy Kennedy got into it today with Arlen Specter during the Alito hearings. Kennedy is very interested in certain sealed records in the Library of Congress, to the point where he wants an executive session of the committee to grant a subpeona to open those records. But the below exchange was particularly interesting.
SPECTER: Well, we'll consider that, Senator Kennedy. There are many, many requests which are coming to me and many quarters. And, quite candidly, I view the request — if it's really a matter of importance, you and I see each other all the time and you have never mentioned it to me. And I do not ascribe a great deal of weight — we actually didn't get a letter, but…
KENNEDY: You did get a letter. Are you saying…
SPECTER: Well, now wait a minute; you don't know what I got. I'm about to…
KENNEDY: Yes I do, Senator, since I sent it.
SPECTER: Well, the sender does not necessarily know what the recipient gets, Senator Kennedy. You are not in a position to say what I receive. If you'll bear with me for one minute.
KENNEDY: But I am in a position to say what I sent to you on December 22.
SPECTER: You're in a position to tell me what you sent.
Hey, Teddy… How did you send it? Hopefully you didn't send it by the woefully inadequate United States Postal Service, did you? You should know not to trust government with anything; your feckless, incompetent butt is running it!
Repeat after me, Ted: UPS. You hear me? United Parcel Service. A private company. You know why? Signature confirmation. You can tell Specter exactly what day he received the letter and who signed for it. Can't do that with the USPS, can you?
John Stossel on Education
John Stossel – Public Schools Are Cheating the Children
Government monopolies routinely fail their customers.
Kaat Vandensavel runs a Belgian government school, but in Belgium, school funding follows students, even to private schools. So Vandensavel has to work hard to impress the parents. "If we don't offer them what they want for their child, they won't come to our school." That pressure makes a world of difference, she says. It forces Belgian schools to innovate in order to appeal to parents and students. Vandensavel's school offers extra sports programs and classes in hairdressing, car mechanics, cooking, and furniture building. She told us, "We have to work hard day after day. Otherwise you just [go] out of business."
"That's normal in Western Europe," Harvard economist Caroline Hoxby told me. "If schools don't perform well, a parent would never be trapped in that school in the same way you could be trapped in the U.S."
Vandensavel adds, "America seems like a medieval country . . . a Communist country on the educational level, because there's no freedom of choice — not for parents, not for pupils."
In kindergarten through 12th grade, that is. Colleges compete, so the United States has many of the most prestigious in the world — eight of the top 10 universities, on a Chinese list of the world's top 500. (The other two are Cambridge and Oxford.)
Accountability is why universities and private schools perform better. Every day they are held accountable by parents and students, and if they fail the kids, school administrators lose their jobs. Public school officials almost never lose jobs.
Couldn't have said it better myself. This country NEEDS to find a way to break the NEA teachers union, or it's never going to get better.
Always remember, the NEA is acting in the interests of their constituents. Those constituents are teachers, not students. The NEA primarily wants more funding and smaller class sizes. What does that mean? Higher salaries for teachers, and a greater number of teachers required to fill those smaller classes. No correlation has been shown between either higher funding or smaller class sizes and improved student performance, but that doesn't change a thing. What do they try to avoid? Accountability and merit-based compensation. The two things that are most likely to actually have effects.
One primary reason I moved was that I knew I couldn't bring myself to put my kids into a California public school. I plan to be the type of parent that can hold enough accountability over my children to educate them regardless of the quality of school in which they're enrolled, but the more help I have from the local school, the better. To engage in choice and competition, I had to either choose to spend scarce dollars while living in a very high-cost-of-living state on private schooling, or leave that state entirely. I'm very lucky in that I had opportunities to make that move through my company, and an understanding wife who wanted to move as well. I'd love to see people with less freedom (whether due to work, family, etc) have options for choice as well, but we need to eviscerate the NEA to have a chance at reaching that point.
The Real OC Housewives
Bravo Trains Lens on Real-life 'Housewives'
First there was "The O.C.," followed not long after by the verite version, MTV's "Laguna Beach."
Then came "Desperate Housewives," taking the prime-time soap to levels not seen since the heyday of "Dallas" and "Dynasty." Now, perhaps inevitably, someone is training cameras on non-actresses who live out their own dramas in an upscale community.
This spring, cable network Bravo will unveil "The Real Housewives of Orange County," which will follow five women who live in a gated community in O.C., south of Los Angeles. In keeping with its fictional template, four of the women, among them a former Playboy Playmate and a "self-made" insurance broker, are in their 40s, while the fifth, a newcomer to the community, is younger.
Great… My wife never really watched The OC. But she loved Laguna Beach: The Real OC. Likewise, she never really got into Desperate Housewives, but when I told her about this new show, she seemed excited. So I have a feeling that once this comes on the air, I'll have even more time for blogging!
January 10, 2006
Is This Why Test Scores are so Bad?
Ezra Klein: Death to the Morning!
Brain scientists want high schools to start later so teens can sleep. Research shows that body clocks run later in teens than in adults and younger kids: In teens, a sleep-inducing hormone doesn't start rising till 10 or 11 p.m. and doesn't let up till 8 a.m. Some high schools are starting later; others are considering it. Skeptical parents say adjusting the school day would 1) interfere with after-school jobs and 2) give in to teens who stay up late playing video games or chatting on the phone. But some scientists say 1) we should respect kids' sleep needs the way we respect their nutritional needs, and 2) sending them to school at 7 a.m. just teaches them to dope themselves with coffee.
My senior year, they scheduled the AP Physics and AP Chemistry classes for the same time period during the day. The Physics class was over-full, so they wanted to break it into two sessions, but that room was booked all day long. Classes started at 7:20 for most students. So they created a period for those of us dedicated folks starting at 6:25 AM, so that we could come in early and get our AP Physics fix. I bought a coffee maker for the room, and we'd have coffee every morning during class… It was quite a good time.
They enticed us into this arrangement by offering us early departure each day. Fall semester that year I got out of school at noon every day. Spring semester, I got out of school at 1:30, but ended up having an hour and a half for lunch each day. That was a fun year…
As for performance, I got a 5 (the highest possible score) on both halves of the AP Physics test, so maybe it's just the fact that– unlike most current high schoolers– I wasn't all doped up on behavioral modification drugs.
The Spread Option: Next Big Thing in College Football?
In the past, I've discussed some of the changes taking place over the years of the role of the quarterback in football. In that discussion, I talked quite a bit about how the interplay between offense and defense has changed the entire style of the game, and how it is a constant battle between the two.
In college football, about 15-20 years ago, the option offense basically disappeared from most programs. The option is called such because there is in essence, one basic play called, but based on the decision of the quarterback, the play can develop along several different "options". For a short description of how it works, the offense lines up in a normal set, the quarterback takes the snap, and starts down the line as in a quarterback sweep. At the same time, the running back is running the same direction, a few yard farther behind the quarterback (but ahead of him laterally), waiting for the quarterback to pitch him the ball. The quarterback has a decision to make based upon the defensive end. The defensive end can choose to move to tackle the QB or float out to be ready to tackle the running back, but he can't do both. So if the defensive end comes after the QB, the QB pitches to the running back, who now has open field to run. If the defensive back moves to cover the running back, the QB keeps the ball and turns upfield for a several yard gain.
The basic goal of any offensive scheme is to neutralize advantages inherent in a defense. Because typically only a few offensive players on a team will ever recieve the ball, yet all defenders tackle, it is necessary to beat defenses in a numbers game in which they hold a distinct advantage. The goal for any offense is to get a ball-carrier or receiver into one-on-one matchups, forcing a defender to react to the actions of your offensive player, a situation in which they can make mistakes allowing big plays. Defenses are based on assignments, of finding a specific area of the field that is their responsibility to defend. Against running plays, a defensive end's job is to be the "contain" man on plays heading outside, forcing plays inside where the rest of the defense is waiting. Brian Urlacher, linebacker in the Chicago Bears very formidable defense, said recently in an interview that the strength of the defense is that everyone knows and executes their assignment. Essentially, defenders know where to be to stop plays, and as long as they make it to their assignment, they will either stop the play or disrupt it enough to allow other defenders to support them.
Voter Fraud Really Does Occur!
In a debate with a friend over a Georgia judge calling an ID requirement a poll tax if required for voting, that friend said that it's really just a way to keep poor lazy people from voting. Of course, she didn't put it like that, but I can read between the lines. She said that illegal immigrants and legal voters won't really try to cast illegal ballots, because there's just not much of a point to doing so. After all, how many people do you think really take voting seriously enough to do it illegally, but not legally?
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, enough to sway an election:
The grimy stucco storefront at 169 Trinity Ave. houses the Atlanta Recovery Center, a shelter for homeless men fighting drugs and alcohol. It also is home — on paper, anyway — to 208 registered voters.
One purportedly is 102 years old. Four are sex offenders who list the shelter as their permanent residence. Twenty of the 208 have cast ballots at least once since 2004.
It's anybody's guess, though, as to where they actually live or where they should be registered to vote. With at least three registered twice, it's not clear how many of them really exist.
Georgia relies on an honor system that assumes voters live at the addresses they submit when they register. These addresses determine voters' precinct assignments and, consequently, the elections in which they may cast ballots.
The honor system failed in the Atlanta City Council's 6th District, the Journal-Constitution found.
Five votes separated the two candidates in November's election. But the newspaper identified seven voters who claim as their home addresses one of two UPS Stores on Monroe Drive, where each rents a mailbox. Another voter in the 6th District last November recorded his address as an apartment at 541 10th Street N.E. — the location of the tennis courts at Grady High School.
None of those eight — whose ballots could have swayed the election's results — should have been allowed to vote while registered at inaccurate addresses. But they are just a few among at least 2,000 in Fulton and other metro Atlanta counties who claim to reside at addresses that are not residential at all.
(emphasis added)
Now, in anything but a very close race, simple statistics will probably show that the number of illegally cast ballots is miniscule compared to those that are legal. And if Florida in 2000 is any indication, the inability of people to successfully be literate and comprehend a ballot– knowing who they're actually voting for– is probably a bigger problem than illegal ballots. While it might be smart for the future of the country, even I'm not ready to call for an IQ test as a precondition to vote. But is it too much to ask that there be at least some accountability?
Five votes in one Atlanta City Council district. This is, without a doubt, within the statistical margin of error of any election. No matter what, there is no certain way to prove that this election was decided correctly. But that doesn't mean that we should leave open as many loopholes and potential avenues for fraud as exist today. Even if we do solve the problem of addresses and require someone to show ID, it won't solve the problem completely (as when I lived in California, I never actually updated my driver's license address despite moving about 4 times). But it might narrow the margin of error. And if we narrow the margin of error, people may grow more certain that their own vote will be counted correctly and not cancelled by a vote cast illegally.
After the 2000 Presidential Election, and constant electoral battles at the state and local level since, is it too much to ask that we take this process seriously? When we (unfortunately) allow government to grow so large that the people running it have enormous, nearly unchecked power, I consider it important that the people rightfully elected to wield that power are the ones who reach office, not simply whoever has the better lawyers. I understand it's asking a lot to expect government to be able to successfully purge illegal voters off the rolls without stripping the rights of legal voters; and to enact policies that ensure that voting is a fair process, a right open to all who are legally entitled to exercise it. But if we can't trust our government to ensure that our elections are decided correctly, how can we trust them to do anything else?
Hat Tip: Matt Duffy
January 9, 2006
IRS Hiding Its Tracks, As Usual
IRS Said to Improperly Restrict Access
The Bush administration has illegally stopped making public detailed tax enforcement data, which has been used to show which kinds of taxpayers get the most and toughest audits, a noted tax researcher says.
As the story later shows, it does sound like the IRS is acting in violation of a court order, but I wouldn't necessarily trust the charge being leveled by a "noted tax researcher" instead of a lawyer or judge. And it's not shown whether this activity is at the behest of the Bush administration. I'll go on with the rest of the story, which sounds like a government agency dodging accountability (certainly consistent with previous Bush administration behavior), but I wanted to point out a couple of things that don't necessarily add up here at the beginning. The charges that it is illegal (with any certainty) or that it is related to the Bush administration (with any certainty) are unsubstantiated.
Syracuse University Professor Susan B. Long said in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle late last week that since Nov. 1, 2004, the Internal Revenue Service has violated a 1976 court order requiring the release of the data.
IRS spokesman Terry Lemons responded Friday, "We do not believe we are in violation of the court order."
Long, who has researched and written about federal tax administration for more than 30 years, used the Freedom of Information Act to win the court order in 1976 directing the revenue agency to provide her regularly with its data on criminal investigations, tax collections, the number and hours devoted to audits by income level and taxpayer category and other enforcement records.
Since 1989, her FOIA requests have been submitted by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a data-research organization at Syracuse of which she is co-director.
TRAC has used the records to report in 2000 that the Clinton administration was auditing poor people at a higher rate than rich people and in 2004 that business and corporate audits were down substantially and criminal tax enforcement was at an all-time low. TRAC also reported that in fiscal 2002-2004 IRS audited on average only a third of the largest corporations, which control 90 percent of all corporate assets and 87 percent of all corporate income.
Now we're getting somewhere. Susan Long and her organization are acting as a watchdog to ensure that our government isn't playing favorites. I'm not sure if there is a political motivation behind her group or not, but the more watchdogs looking after the government, the better. Which is why it's especially pernicious that they've stopped responding to her requests.
They've been lax in providing any data past Mar 2004. The last time they presented any new data was Nov 2004, when they provided the report detailing activity until Mar 2004, and they again responded in April 2005, but there was no new data in this report. Susan Long had been requesting data annually (by court order, she apparently is entitled to data on a quarterly basis), but has been ramping up the rate of her requests since the IRS stopped complying.
This brings up a lot of very troubling questions. It goes without saying that I don't trust the IRS. But now they appear to be actively hiding what they're doing, and have stopped providing some of the data they readily gave in the past. From all I know of government, they're not just trying to reduce workload, because every bureaucrat in existence loves to have more people working underneath them.
Are they actively trying to hide certain data? Is this data something that we, as a public, would find compelling to know? Is the Bush administration tied up in this at all? I'd like some answers.
(cross-posted at The FairTax Blog)
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Vince Young Declares For NFL Draft
Texas QB Vince Young Headed to NFL Draft
With a national championship, a litany of school records and one spectacular Rose Bowl performance, Vince Young figures he's done all he can at the college level. So, the Texas quarterback is going to the NFL.
Young announced Sunday he'll skip his senior season to enter the NFL draft, taking the leap many expected after leading the Longhorns to a 41-38 victory over Southern California for Texas' first national title in 36 years.
"It's been a really fun ride. It's been really beautiful, and I'll cherish my memories for the rest of my life," Young said at a campus news conference to announce his decision.
"I feel like I accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish in college," Young said.
And he immediately set the bar for his pro career pretty high.
"I will not let you down. I will be a hard worker and do what it takes to not only be a role model, but make it to the Hall of Fame, and that's the biggest it can be," Young said.
Wow. Vince must not be known for his modesty. Already predicting a hall of fame run?
Of course, from what I've seen, barring injury, he'll make it in there. He is just that good. After watching his performance in the Rose Bowl, I believe he should have taken the Heisman race, not Reggie Bush. As my coworker said to me, he made USC's defenders look "silly". Anyone who can have a level of performance that far ahead of defenders on one of college football's best teams has something truly special.
I know most Texas fans are sad to see Vince leave, but frankly, he had nothing left to accomplish with the Longhorns. He's a cut above, and he needs to make his jump now.
Schwarzenegger is a Hacker*?
Gov. Schwarzenegger Receives Stitches
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't plan to change his schedule even though he received 15 stitches in his lip for injuries sustained when his motorcycle collided with a car, his spokeswoman said.
The governor was expected to keep his appointments Monday, spokeswoman Margita Thompson said.
Schwarzenegger was riding his motorcycle Sunday with his 12-year-old son, Patrick, in the sidecar, when a car backed out of a driveway in the Brentwood section, Thompson said.
He rides a sidecar?! No wonder he couldn't avoid the car. Motorcycles are light, agile, and maneuverable. When you strap a sidecar onto them, all of a sudden they lose all handling advantages they once had over a car. I'm sure Maria probably wanted him to start riding a bike with a sidecar to be more "safe"; adding a sidecar to a motorcycle is anything but. As a sidecar proponent puts it:
The ride is something like, well, maybe a truck with two bad left shocks? Seriously, I've ridden a few and all have types their own unique suspension and ride but all that I've ridden share some of the same ride characteristics. Because of the nature of sidecars, your high seating position on the bike and lean out (discussed later), you feel like you are being thrown away from the chair when you hit bumps. Trust me – the sensation goes away after a while.
Glad to hear he and his son are both okay, though. I know people who've walked away from very high-speed crashes with no injuries, and people who have hurt themselves badly in "minor" low-speed crashes. But, I guess you can't injure Conan, huh?
January 8, 2006
India Iced Over
Delhi gets first winter ice in 70 years, Indian cold toll rises
The Indian capital has seen its first winter frost in 70 years as a cold wave sweeping in from the frigid heights of the Himalayas killed more people in northern India overnight.
The capital city of 14 million people ordered schools shut for three days beginning Monday as the mercury for the first time since 1935 plummeted to 0.2 degrees C (32.36 F) Sunday, leaving mounds of ice on cars parked in the open.
White-laced streets greeted early risers in New Delhi but any novelty value brought by the cold temperatures soon died as frost on power cables sparked partial power cuts across large swathes of the crowded city, the privately-run BSES utility provider said.
In 1935, Delhi recorded minus 0.6 degrees Celsius.
The real question is: How long it will take to blame this on global warming?
With this news, however, comes sadder news.
The toll from the cold wave, meanwhile, rose to 137 as the eastern Indian state of Bihar reported that 10 people, mostly homeless, had died of the cold since the beginning of last month.
Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous and one of its poorest states, so far accounts for 104 of the deaths, police spokesman Avinash Mehrotra said in the provincial capital of Lucknow.
It is always sad to see, no matter whether it is the US or elsewhere, that even with the tremendous increase in standard of living, we still see such large numbers of poor and elderly people die simply due to heat or cold. Only two and a half years ago, we saw almost 15,000 die in France, a modern, industrialized nation, due to heat.
I'm sure it's simply wishful thinking to believe that we may someday completely eliminate this problem, but I know it can be made better than it is today. But the experience of France vs the US shows one thing is true: it will be capitalism, not government, that makes the biggest dent in solving this issue. People are best able to fight heat and cold when their standard of living allows them to afford homes with heat and air conditioning. Capitalism is the absolute best engine towards achieving that reality.
January 7, 2006
Irish Red Ale
There's a reason I'm not often allowed in the kitchen… Looks like a hurricane came through…
Yep, today was the first attempt at brewing. In about 4-6 weeks, after it completes first fermentation, second fermentation, and about 2 weeks in bottles, I'll get a chance to sample my work. But everything seemed to occur just as the directions said it would, so I think it will turn out well.
Overall, this was a very interesting project. If nothing else, I'm going to start learning a lot more about what makes beer into beer, what affects the flavors and colors, and how to craft the taste one is searching. During the brew process, I opened and smelled the first package of hops, and immediately thought it smelled like beer. At the end of the brew process, when it came time to add the second package of hops, I opened those and suddenly realized exactly where the "Irish Red Ale" flavor came from. That package of hops smelled like a bottle of Killians. Very nice.
So here is the current state:
Next up, some Phat Tyre Amber Ale
January 6, 2006
Nyah, Nyah!
Is it too late to change to a different army?
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch troops helping earthquake survivors in Pakistan have complained that while they are subject to an alcohol ban, Spanish and British soldiers laugh at their austerity and turn up drunk at their campfire.
"We were told before we arrived that alcohol was banned in this country or else very difficult to get hold of and we accepted this," one soldier told the Dutch daily De Telegraaf.
"The Spanish drive around with cars full of Heineken … and the English laugh at us when they show up at our campfire drunk," another Dutch soldier said.
Remember when you used to get grounded as a kid? While you were stuck in your room "thinking about what you've done", your friends are all playing in the yard across the street, loudly and boisterous, and you're stuck trying to find ways to tune them out amuse yourself (is it any wonder I love reading so much)?
I see life doesn't change much when you become a soldier. Maybe we should send some books their way?
Democrats in 2006
AP Poll Shows that Americans want Democrats to Regain Congress in 2006
In an ominous election-year sign for Republicans, Americans are leaning sharply toward wanting Democrats to take control of Congress, an AP-Ipsos poll finds. Democrats are favored 49 percent to 36 percent.
"I don't think anyone is hitting the panic button," said Rich Bond, a former Republican National Committee chairman. "But there is an acute recognition of the grim environment that both parties are operating in."
"If the Democrats had any leadership or any message, they could be poised for a good year," Bond said. "But in the absence of that, they have not been able to capitalize on Republican woes. Because of the size of the GOP majority, Democrats have to run the board, and I don't see that happening."
Wow… 49 percent to 36 percent? That's a pretty big margin. Things are looking pretty grim for the Republicans…
Or are they?
It seems that of the people polled, a large margin would like to see a change. But with gerrymandered districts and no correlation between this poll and the voters in contested districts, there's not much real news here.
So I look where I always look, Tradesports.com. TradeSports currently has two contracts running. The two below contracts are traded on a scale of 0 to 100, where 100 will be the value of the contract if the Republicans gain control, and 0 will be the value if the Democrats gain control. It's a rough estimate, but you can consider the value of the contract a percentage estimate of how likely it is that the contract's result occurs:
SENATE.GOP.2006: Currently trading at 76.1
HOUSE.GOP.2006: Currently trading at 70.3
So the people laying their money on the line think it's pretty likely that the Republicans will keep Congress. Given their performance, I wouldn't mind a little gridlock, but I prefer the Republican Congress/Democrat President variety, as it results in the best fiscal results we usually ever see. But for everyone pulling for a Republican congressional victory in 2006, it is not yet time to fret.
Affiliate Strategy
As you can all see, there are a much greater number of ads sprinkled over on that left sidebar. I have chosen to work with affiliate programs rather than something like Google Adsense, as it gives me more control over which ads I display and which I do not.
All ads displayed on The Unrepentant Individual will satisfy a few possible reasons:
1. It will be a product/web site that I personally use.
2. It will be a product/web site that I would consider using.
3. It is a product/web site that comes recommended to me from a source I trust.
I have arranged this into a few main categories, and will explain below. I will regularly update this post and keep it linked on the left sidebar as different ad programs may be added and/or deleted.
January 5, 2006
Rights of the Government to Impose Air Security Measures
Strap yourselves in, folks, this is gonna be a long one… Due to length, I've decided to post most of it below the fold. (Cross-posted at The Liberty Papers)
In response to my piece, Common Sense Offends ACLU, addressing the ACLU's opposition towards the behavioral screening procedures imposed by the TSA in certain airports, commenter John Newman brought up some questions. John believes that federalizing aviation security matters is Unconstitutional. He advances two particular arguments.
His first argument discusses the Constitution's "fundamental right to travel". It mainly consists of picking quotes from Supreme Court cases upholding the fundamental right of travel. I will first mention that the fundamental right of travel is not once mentioned in the Constitution, but may be built from penumbras emanating from some such or the like. But that's not the crux of the argument. See the following quotes from John's own selections of court cases (emphasis added below in italics):
require that all citizens be free to travel throughout the length and breadth of our land uninhibited by statutes, rules or regulations which unreasonably burden or restrict this movement
'any classification which serves to penalize the exercise of that right unless shown to be necessary to promote a compelling governmental interest, is unconstitutional'
The right to travel, to go from place to place as the means of transportation permit, is a natural right subject to the rights of others and to reasonable regulation under law
fundamental personal right that can be impinged only if to do so is necessary to promote a compelling governmental interest
a 'fundamental' one, requiring the showing of a 'compelling state or local interest to warrant its limitationâ€
At the minimum, governmental restrictions upon freedom to travel are to be weighed against the necessity advanced to justify them, and a restriction that burdens the right to travel 'too broadly and indiscriminately' cannot be sustained
is basically the right to travel unrestricted by unreasonable government interference or regulation
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Recipe for shrimp with avocado
Serves 4
Uri Jeremias writes, "This recipe stems from a culinary experience I had 35 years ago, at an exclusive Swiss restaurant where I ate a shrimp and avocado dish. Back then I understood little about food, but the combined flavors of the shrimp and the avocado won me over." He told this story to his "Fish and Seafood" coauthor, Efrat Michaeli. She, too, had had a memorable dish while she was living in London with her parents. A rich aunt invited the family to an exclusive restaurant, where Michaeli had the avocado-shrimp combination. You can add finely chopped chili pepper to garnish this salad if you want something spicier.
Salt, to taste | |
1 | pound shrimp, shelled and deveined |
1 | ripe avocado (Hass is preferable), halved, pitted, and peeled |
1 | tablespoon green hot sauce, or more to taste |
Juice of ½ lemon | |
4 | tablespoons olive oil |
6 | Kalamata olives, pitted and coarsely chopped |
1. In a saucepan of boiling salted water, cook the shrimp for 2 minutes or until cooked through. Drain into a colander. Transfer to a bowl.
2. On a platter, place the avocado halves. Slice thickly and sprinkle with salt.
3. In a bowl, whisk the hot sauce, lemon juice, and a pinch of salt. Gradually whisk in the oil. Pour the dressing over the shrimp and toss well.
4. Spoon the shrimp over the avocado. Garnish with olives. Serve with crusty bread. Adapted from "Uri Buri Fish and Seafood"


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TY - DATA AU - Svetlana Vichovanec PY - 2012/10/17 T1 - Intercommunication of functional violations of carriage and physical preparedness of teenagers with violation of sight UR - http://figshare.com/articles/Intercommunication_of_functional_violations_of_carriage_and_physical_preparedness_of_teenagers_with_violation_of_sight/96566 L2 - http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.96566 L4 - http://files.figshare.com/100915/_________.pdf KW - teenagers KW - carriage KW - physical training N2 -
Authors | Vichovanec S.V. email@example.com Prikarpatskiy National University T.Shevchenko str., 57, Ivano-Francovsk, 76025, Ukraine Lapkovsky E.I. email@example.com Prikarpatskiy National University T.Shevchenko str., 57, Ivano-Francovsk, 76025, Ukraine Baskevich O.V. firstname.lastname@example.com Prikarpatskiy National University T.Shevchenko str., 57, Ivano-Francovsk, 76025, Ukraine |
Abstract | A research purpose consisted in the study frequencies and degrees of violation of carriage, and also description of level of physical readiness at teenagers 14-16 years with violation of sight. The pupils of educational correction-rehabilitation center for children with violation of sight took part in research (55 teenagers in age 14-16 years). The level of physical development and physical readiness was determined. It is shown that the defeat of the visual analyzer substantially influences on forming of normal carriage and is often combined with violations of vaults of foot. These violations appropriately lowering of level of physical preparedness at this contingent of the proper correcting physical exercises. |
Key words | teenagers; violation of eyesight; carriage; physical training; |
References | Barladian O.M. Valeologiia [Valeology], 2010, vol.9, pp. 61-63. Bashkin I. N., Makarova E. V., Volynskaia-Slezhinskaia A. Fizicheskaia reabilitaciia detej so skoliozom I stepeni v specializirovannykh uchrezhdeniiakh [Physical rehabilitation of children with scoliosis of the I degree in the specialized establishments], Olimpijskij sport i sport dlia vsekh [Olympic sport and sport for all], Kiev, Olympic Literature, 2005, p. 671. Bichuk O.I. Visnik Volins'kogo derzhavnogo universitetu im.Lesi Ukrayinki [Announcer of the Volinsk State University], 2000, vol.1, pp. 67-70. Bensbaa A. Biomekhanicheskaia korrekciia osanki shkol'nikov v processe fizicheskogo vospitaniia [Biomechanics correction of carriage of schoolchildren in the process of physical education], Olimpijskij sport i sport dlia vsekh [Olympic sport and sport for all], Kiev, Olympic Literature, 2010, p. 335-536. Bojchenko A.V., Shcherbin S.L., Kaskulov Kh.M. Diagnostika i korrekciia skolioza u detej [Diagnostics and rachilysis for children], Rostov-on-Don, Bios RSU Publ., 2001, 96 p. Grebennikova V.V., Sheshina R.M. Mezhdunarodnyj zhurnal prikladnikh i fundamental'nikh issledovanij [International journal of applied and fundamental researches], 2009, vol.7, pp. 34-36. Kashuba V. A. Biomekhanika osanki [Biomechanics of carriage], Kiev, Olympic Literature, 2005, 278 p. Kotesheva I. A. Narusheniia osanki [Violations of carriage], Moscow, Eksmo Publ., 2004, 208 p. Morozova T.S. Fizicheskaia kul'tura [Physical culture], 2002, vol.3, pp. 33-36. Poliaev B.A. Gimnasticheskie uprazhneniia s miachami i drugimi predmetami v kompleksnoj korrekcii narushenij osanki [Physical drills with balls and other objects in the complex correction of violations of carriage], Moscow, 2007, 28 p. Potapchuk A.A., Didur M.D. Osanka i fizicheskoe razvitie detej [Carriage and physical development of children], Saint Petersburg, Speech, 2008, 163 p. Trushkin A. G. Metodicheskie rekomendacii po kompleksnoj ocenke fizicheskogo razvitiia detej i podrostkov (ot 5 do 17 let) [Methodical recommendations by complex estimation of physical development of children and teenagers (from 5 to 17 years)], Rostov-on-Don, RSPU, 2000, 71 p. Khramcov P.I. Vestnik RAMN [Announcer Russian Academy of Medical Sciences], 2009, vol.8, pp. 14-18. Cykunov M. B., Eremushkin M.A. Medicinskaia pomoshch' [Medical aid], 2001, vol.1, p. 21. |
First page | 38 |
Last page | 41 |
Volume | 6 |
Year | 2012 |
doi: | 10.6084/m9.figshare.96566 |
Title of Journal | Fiziceskoe vospitanie studentov=Physical Education of Students |
Article | PDF, full text |
Journal | HTML, Contents |


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I typically interact with X-many OSes per day:
3021 votes / 11% |
8671 votes / 32% |
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
I typically interact with X-many OSes per day:
Windows 7 (work desktop and gaming at home), Ubuntu Linux (pretty much all of my other home-use stuff), Android (on my phone), and Solaris (server I deploy to at work). I suppose some would argue that Android and Ubuntu should just fall under Linux, however.
Re:3 or 4 depending (Score:5, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01, 2012 @12:55PM (#40181639)Except Linux isn't an OS, it's a kernel. You must be thinking of GNU/Linux. You didn't hear any heavy breathing behind you or see a shadow of a fat bearded guy with a sword or anything while you typed that, did you? Because that usually happens.
Yes, I saw him too, after I had typed two OSs, one for Linux (inclusing Androi) and Windows.
I didn't realize what I had done until I read your message. Brrr.
How long will curses like these last? Until next reboot? Or do i need to wait for the next update? (Damn. I should have chosen Sid!)
If your initrd uses BusyBox (not an FSF "product"), and the desktop uses binutils/Linux does that count count as 2?
Right now on my desk, I've got an iPad (iOS), a Thinkpad Tablet (Android), a MacBook (OS X) and a Thinkpad (dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux, depending on what I'm trying to get done). And, surprisingly to me, at least, I get real work done on all the devices, pretty much every day.
Oh, and my servers all run Debian Squeeze... but I haven't ssh'ed into any of them today.
Re:3 or 4 depending (Score:5, Insightful)
by MachineShedFred (621896) on Friday June 01, 2012 @03:27PM (#40183933) JournalThe question behind "depending" goes even further. Off the top of my head:
iOS 5 on iPhone / iPad / AppleTV 2
Mac OS X 10.7 on MacBook Air
Mac OS X 10.8 DP3 on Mac Pro test box
Windows 7 SP1 on Lenovo x220
??? on BMW iDrive controller in my car
FreeBSD on NAS device
various servers on the Internet (Windows, UNIX, Linux, etc.)
various embedded OS versions on consumer electronics devices (HDTV, digital receiver, etc.)The world runs on software, whether you know it or not.
MacOSX, Win7, WinVista, WinXP, Gentoo, Fedora, Debian, OpenWRT, OpenBSD, PalmOS, and Cisco IOS. Some days add Ubuntu, Win98, Win3.1, MS-DOS and MacOS 9 to the mix.
A bunch of the machines I use are really virtual machines on top of VMware ESXi (though some are on VMware Workstation on Win7 or Linux.) But I do actually interact with the VMware, not just the guest OSs.
Android is fairly Linuxy inside, but the Linux bits are all well hidden, so I'm really dealing with Android and HTC. Does it count?
And I do mean IOS, not iOS. I think all the CatOS is gone.
Sourcefire IDS has a Linux base that their apps run on top of, but unfortunately it's not running either Debi
I'm counting Windows XP and WIndows 7 as just one, the other 2 I use are Linux and z/OS.
Oh shoot, I forgot different versions of windows counted more than once. That pushes me into the 5 or more category.
I counted XP and Win7 as 2, but I forgot to count the OS on my Android phone, TiVo, car, etc.
I'm guessing most people had the same oversight and the entire poll results are off by 3 or 4 (ie, "X = just one" should be "X = 4"; "X = 1" should be "X = 5", etc.)
Re:2 Windowsws, a *Nix and an /OS (Score:5, Funny)
by Sponge Bath (413667) on Friday June 01, 2012 @02:36PM (#40183097)...and z/OS.
A real computer can crush a human like a grape if it fell over.
A real computer can crush a human like a grape if it fell over.
Dammit, I've been using facebook too long. The first thing I looked for after reading your comment was the "like" button. I've gotten used to seeing what comments people think are funny with that kind of upvoting.
Surprisingly many... (Score:5, Insightful)
by IorDMUX (870522) <mark,zimmerman3&gmail,com> on Friday June 01, 2012 @10:29AM (#40179817) HomepageSurprisingly many, if you stop to think about it. And I'm not even going to get into considering the web servers, routers, and the whole internet backbone that is handling these very page requests as an "interaction". I mean, five minutes of thought gave me the following list:- Windows XP (directly) at work
- UNIX (remotely) at work
- Windows 7 at home
- Android on my phone
- OSX on my wife's laptop
- BREW or whatever it is now on my wife's phone
- And who-knows-what on the ATM's, cash registers, and other computers-we-barely-see-anymore which I run into every day.
So, surprisingly many. And I'm sure I've missed a few. I wonder what the CISCO VOIP office phone next to me is running...
Everything from an old system running SCO OpenServer 5 to CentOS 5 and 6, Debian 4 in other legacy systems, Windows XP, Vista, and 7, iOS, Android from 2.2 to 4.0, OSX 10.6 and 10.7.
I do web development, though, as well as embedded systems, so my day job involves a lot of different machines and virtual systems.
So I boot up my (ubuntu 10.10) desktop, grab a file from my (UNR) netbook, and upload it to my (CentOS) virtual server which is running under physical hardware on RedHat. To do this it goes through (on the last traceroute) 12 different machines. I do this kind of thing all day, the question rapidly becomes fairly meaningless.
Windows XP at work, Windows 7 at home, Android on my phone, and another kind of android on my Kindle Fire.
Mostly I run Mac OS X & Windows, with a couple of different versions. I have a laptop running Win 7, and an old 21" iMac running Mac OS X 10.6 for work, and we also have a PC loaded with Ubuntu that I keep backups of our Moodle site on. At home it's a 27" iMac with Mac OS X 10.6 and a 17" Macbook Pro with Mac OS X 10.7 and Bootcamp running Win 7. I rarely boot in to Win 7, but I teach a DOS class and some publishers have decided to make their course files
Windows 7 (HPE on my personal system, Enterprise on my work system) Android on my Galaxy Tab Z/OS at work
What counts as an OS? (Score:5, Insightful)
I only counted computers and handhelds, but my TV has pretty sophisticated firmware, as does my DVD player, as does my DVR, as does my portable gaming device (two, if you count the flashcart). Do you count those? What about if you have a smart thermostat? A car with GPS? Hell, some of these modern cars WITHOUT GPS! -
Define "Interact" And "OS" (Score:5, Funny)
by Nova Express (100383) <firstname.lastname@example.com> on Friday June 01, 2012 @11:18AM (#40180497) Homepage JournalDefine "interact." The bits that represent the letters I am typing into this field have passed from my iMac, through my router, through my cable modem, up through my ISP's machines, up until it finally reached the Slashdot data center, with all its web servers, load balancer, firewalls, etc.. How many different OSes were on the machines in the journey of those bits? Linux? Solaris? Windows?
And the numerous interactions only get more tangled when sending email, what with multiple MX machines, DHCP lookups, etc.
And what's an OS? Is my router running its own OS? My cable modem?
It could be hundreds without even talking about my iPhone or TV...
I interpreted Interact as "I do something with it, whether it is using it or developping for it. Having it hanging on the wall is not enough.". Therefore, I would not count network devices unless you are actually rewiring them or reconfiguring them.
I am usure what OS is but I still counted 5 of them for me: my phone runs android, my computer runs debian, I perform daily testing on windows and MacOS, one of the prototype computing card I currently work runs FreeBSD.
I was unsure at first whether to count linu
I usually boot into Linux when I'm at work. Occasionally, I'll need to boot into Windows for a webinar that uses Silverlight. So that's "2" to start.
But don't forget mobile devices. I have an iPad at home, which lets me browse news over breakfast. But my smartphone is an Android device. That's 2 more.
And when I'm doing development work, I'm usually running an instance of FreeDOS in DOSEmu.
What about my programmer's editor of choice: does GNU Emacs count as an operating system?
... does GNU Emacs count as an operating system?
No, it lacks a good editor, although I've heard you can port vi over to it.
(Sorry, if I didn't say it, someone else would.)
Lessee now...
Linux (CentOS, Slackware), Solaris, Windows XP, OS X (Lion), Android (Gingerbread), iOS
Ubuntu 10.04 and Android 2.3. Same "OS" or different?
several instances of windows xp in physical and virtual boxes home work and school, windows 7 physical boxes for school and home, ubuntu on my laptop and at the school 12.04 (mate desktop) and 10.04 (gnome desktop) respectively, windows server 2003 at work, and windows server 2008 at school, android on my tablet, and ubuntu server on my home server i am working on, windows 98 vm for some old games, debian for the ftp server i use for my school work, dos vm's for very old games i play when board durring clas
Win 98 on a VM for running games? Just out of curiosity, what are you using to run it? QEMU doesn't even finish installing it. It also doesn't seem to like hardware acceleration on Virtual Box. Bochs maybe?
unfortunately i have to duel boot into windows seven and use ms virtual pc. I have heard vmware player has working graphics for it though so i am going to try installing it on that later. i tried virtualbox as well and didn't get very far as the graphic were horrible. i went to their forum to see if their was any fix and the devs were hostile toward anyone seeking windows 9x support. screw oracle i guess.
Windows (diverse variants)
Linux (Mainly SuSE)
SCO OpenServer (Beat me...)
RMX (Real Time Operating system dating back to the 1970ies)
Android (ok, this one should have been counted with Linux)
VxWorks (several embedded variants)So, five to six.
Sounds like.. (Score:5, Funny)
Does "x=2" read as "I typically interact with too many OSes everyday"?
I work on a Mac, but almost all of our users are on Windows machines - and most of our servers are running RHEL.
So I said three... although my phone is running iOS. So do I count that still as three, or as four?
Junos, IOS (apple), IOS (cisco), junOS, android, windows xp, windows 7, OSX, ubuntu, RHEL (or combine them as linux), and solaris.
OSX (macbook pro), IOS (personal phone & ipad), Windows (work), Android (work phone), Linux (work, home).
If you count versions, variations, and individual distros, the count goes way up, due to interactions with various virtualized servers.
- Win XP
- Win 7
- Win 8
- iOS
- Whatever OS my Sony TV is running -
Most everyone is lying. (Score:5, Insightful)
Do you drive a car? that's another OS.
Phone? Another OS.
How about your TV? That runs Linux. (Yes it really does, look at your manual.)If you are a windows user, that is 4 for every person that owns a car and a LCD or Plasma TV.
I ride a Motorcycle and have 3 cars, so I interact with 7 Operating Systems every day.
Oops, forgot that the Copier here at work Runs QNX, That's 8.
QNX? I have bad memories of that system.
At a previous job there was a co-worker who had built and maintained an MRP system which ran on QNX. It was a few months away from being discontinued when I was told the following snippet:
"Don't hit Ctrl-S when you're in this screen."
"It will erase the hard drive.
Sad to say, I would prefer that MRP over the one I use now...
At work, many with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux due to testings. This includes many versions.
At home, similiar but not so many (Mac OS X 10.5.8, Windows XP Pro. SP3, Windows 2000 SP4, and Debian stable).
I am only mentioning computers.
Windows and Linux at work [1]; OS X at home [2]; iOS on my iPhone, iPad, and new Apple TV; and whatever iPod Nanos run [3].
If you get into versions, it's XP for all the Windows work; Redhat 4, 5, and 6 for Linux at work; currently straight Debian (I think Sid?) at for Linux at home; mostly Leopard through Lion for OS X [4]; and iOS 5.
Oh, and I have a dev edition of an Intel tablet I got for free that I've booted exactly once. I think it runs Maemo or Meego or something?
Do we count firmware? I'm pretty sure
I normally work with
- z/OS on a proper computer
- Linux on a proper server
- WinXP on a fisher price toy
It was actually X=2 in recent months, but my new setup [slashdot.org] has given me such a hard time with Arch Linux and Fedora (for apparently common kernel-level reasons...audio works once or twice then the OS acts as if the devices were removed after one or two boots) that I'm ][ that close to canning those partitions and using Windows 7 until it EOLs or gets a proper competitor.
Games without audio are enjoyable, but so are tuna sandwiches and I can do far better than those too.
OSX 10.7 on all my physical desktops and laptops.
WinXP and Win7 in VMs for browser compatibility testing.
iOS on my iPhone and iPad.
Oh god.... I've crossed into being an Apple fanboi haven't I?
I'm glad that in this day and age the average number of different operating systems people interact with is higher than one. The dark ages of the late '90s and early '00s where everything was Windows definitely wasn't good for both users and the industry. Competition is a good thing, not only for the software itself, but especially to help people better understand how computers work.
Windows, Debian, NetBSD, Android.
Seriously, all Windows versions don't deserve to be counted separately.
I've been using NetBSD the longest. I miss the glory days. -
It's all UNIX (Score:4, Interesting)
by Marillion (33728) <ericbardes.gmail@com> on Friday June 01, 2012 @03:46PM (#40184309)It's all UNIX. I roll up MacOSX, iOS, Solaris, and Linux as one big happy UNIX family.-
Don't know, the Mach kernel of OSX is significantly different than the semi-monolithic kernel of Linux.
2: Windows + *nix, just like everybody else
On the other hand, each computer has one OS on itself (sometimes more), so it could easily be 12.
Win7 on my laptop (with OpenSuSE 11.4, OS/2 Warp 4.0, OSX86, Android and xp guests)
xp and Android on my netbook
Dyne:Bolic on my HTPC
OpenSuSE 11.4 on my server
Debian on my cluster
XBMC and Dashboard 1.1 on my XBoxes
Busybox on my router- almost daily.
(Poll didn't say anything about *level* of interaction).-
I really really want to have a play with RISC OS 3.1, I miss that one from my college days... anyone know where I can find a Virtualbox image or some sort of emulator with the whole base package works?
Working on my laptop running Mac OS X natively and Windows XP & Windows 7 virtualized, checking my phone running iOS, connecting remotely to servers running Linux and FreeBSD. Nothing out of the ordinary.
I haven't used Windows since Win95, and even that was just to launch games--I haven't used it for anything serious since 3.11. I haven't used Mac, period. I had a Solaris box until last year, but now I'm basically down to one OS, unless you count embedded.
Aside from the machines I personally use, that is my work PC running Windows XP, and my two laptops at home running Windows 7 and Mint, each, my Android phone and my Android tablet (Gingerbread and ICS, respectively), I also use a lot of bootable tools at work (I repair computers).
I actually interact only with Unix systems, so X = 1. Unfortunately I interact with my Unix box using a X graphical server, so how does this "X" relates to the "X" in the poll question ?!? Should I say X=1 ? Or X = X ? It is attempting to guess that the answer is X = 1 + X, but then it follows that 1 = 0. I am quite confused...
It depends on your definition of "OS". If by "OS" you mean the traditional term of "operating system" being a set of system libraries that allow for applications to perform operations without relying on calling low-level I/O operations manually (like interrupts, etc), then most would probably not even be 1. You'd have to be writing software that interacts with the actual OS to be "interacting" with it, otherwise you're actually interacting with a complex series of software systems built to abstract you aw
One: Linux
RHEL Linux, Scientific Linux, CentOS Linux, and Mandriva Linux at work; embedded Linux in car; Mandriva Linux, Mageia Linux, and Fedora Linux on home machines; TiVo Linux connected to my TV; Android Linux on my Evo LTE phone in my pocket and on my Xoom tablet; Tomato Linux in my router and Motorola Linux on my cable modem.
Pretty amazingly versatile
The question itself is vague. To me it can be read in at least two ways;
1. How many different OSes do you interact with through their GUI per day?
2. How many different OSes do you utilize on a daily basis?Considering the small numbers in the possible answers I interpreted the intent as meaning 1. The answer to 2 could be quite a few considering I use the internet a lot and there are a lot of different server OSs out there.
Some times statistics poles need a statistician to formulate the question.
OS X and CentOS at work, Debian at home, Android on my phone. That makes for 4 OSes on a typical day.
1. Windows. my desktop (XP, vista & W7..)
2. AIX. Pays my bills.
3. Linux, on my mede8ter mediaplayer & android phone.I don't know what my watch, television and router are running.
Most importnly, my coffee machine, a senseo might have an OS, not sure what.
It's a lot now.
- MacBook Air in the morning to check email and webcomics
- Linux desktop at work
- I work on a product built on FreeBSD
- Windows 7 gaming rig in the evening for Netflix
This isn't counting the iPad or iPhone since Apple has a single CoreOS team that is at the root of all their products. This also doesn't count Windows XP; I have a VM I boot a few times a month for handling corporate BS that won't work on my Linux desktop. It also doesn't count the embedded OS that is inside my car stereo, the Wii, et
My PC at home has Windows XP SP3 as does my wife's PC, which I maintain.
My ISP allows me to logon to my domain on its Web server in a secure shell (a la Telnet) in UNIX Korn. I use that to test and maintain my server-side include (SSI) scripts (which are also in UNIX Korn) and to perform miscellaneous maintenance on my Web site.
I am retired, so I have no work OS.
On whether you count the proprietary OS on my 2G cell phone which you can pry out of my cold dead hands.


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Saturday, November 26, 2011
The Unexpected Gift
True story about something cool that happened today...
My mom, sister, and I were out running errands today. What should have been a few small errands turned into an all-day expedition. Every time we started heading home, we would end up turning around to pick something else up. We were getting upset with all the unexpected errands popping up, there were long to-do lists going undone at home, we were very hungry since we hadn't eaten for hours, and none of us had any extra cash that could be used for getting something to eat.
About 2 years ago I had won a $5 McDonald's gift card in a blog giveaway, but I had been saving it to be used to get a nice coffee at the perfect time. And what good would a $5 gift card do for three starving souls? The card was so old, I wasn't even sure it was any good. So as I sat in the car waiting for my mom to finish up an errand in a store across from McDonald's, I pulled out my cell phone and called the number on the card to see if it was still active. I punched in my gift card number, and waited to hear if $5 was still the balance... That's when I heard it, "Your card balance is $100." I was shocked to hear that, and my sister who was in the car with me asked, "Did she just say your balance is $100?!!!" My guess was that that must be what they say when your card is expired. :P So a little skeptical, we decided to head over to McDonald's and ask them to check the balance. It was $100 and the card was still good!!! The $5 McDonald's gift card I had won a few years before multiplied 20 times! :)
My mom had prayed earlier thanking God for working everything out since our day's plans had been rearranged and we were upset and hungry. And God provided us with enough money to buy as much food as we wanted with a large balance left on the gift card!! We were so surprised and blessed! We laughed and thanked God all the way home! :)
God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think! ~Ephesians 3:20
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1884 | Honjo Copper Smeltery opened. Yamada Cable Works opened. |
1896 | Yokohama Electric Cable Manufacturing Company established (capital:¥50,000) |
1920 | Yokohama Electric Cable Manufacturing Company and Nikko Copper Electrolyzing Refinery, previously a subsidiary of Furukawa Kogyo Co., Ltd., consolidated to establish The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. (capital:¥20,000,000) |
1959 | Hiratsuka Cable Works established in Hiratsuka. |
1959 | Capital tie-up with Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA), established Furukawa Aluminum Co., Ltd. and transferred the control of Nikko Mizushiri and Oyama Plants to the established company. |
1961 | Established and started operations of Chiba Cable Works in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture. |
1970 | Furukawa Circuit Foil Co., Ltd. established through merger with Yates Industries of U.S. to manufacture electrodeposited copper foil. |
1971 | Mie Works established in Kameyama-shi, Mie-prefecture. |
1972 | Furukawa precision Metal Industrial Co., Ltd. established with W.C. Heleus of West Germany to manufacture precision processed products for electronic equipment parts. |
1973 | Furukawa Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd. is formed by merging part of our Factory Division with Furukawa Electric Facility Co.,Ltd., a direct affiliate. This new company is engaged in the construction of overhead power transmission lines and public works. |
1974 | Furukawa Industrial S.A. Produtos Electricos (FISA) established in cooperation with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. in Brazil. |
1977 | Founded joint venture in Indonesia, P.T. Tembaga Mulia Semanan (TMS), for copper wire rods. |
1979 | Bangkok Telecom Co., Ltd. established, as a joint venture in Thailand for manufacture of communication cables. |
1983 | Furukawa Aluminum Fukui Plant established in Fukui Coastal Industrial Zone in Mikuni-cho, Sakai-gun, Fukui prefecture. |
1983 | Thai Furukawa Unicomm Co., Ltd. established in Thailand for construction work for communications. |
1984 | Furukawa Electric America established in the U.S. as a sales company for wires and nonferrous metal. |
1986 | Shainfu Optical Fiber and Cables Company established, through merger with Sian Densen Sho of China for manufacture of optical fiber cables. |
1986 | FITEL established for manufacture and sales of optical fiber cables. |
1987 | United Technologies Furukawa established, through merger with UTA of U.S., for manufacture and sales of wire harness for cars. |
1988 | International Components Technologies Corp. established in U.S.A. for manufacture and sales of memory disc substrates. |
1990 | Plated Copper Wire Manufacturing Company established in Singapore. |
1990 | U.S. copper foil manufacturer Yates Industries purchased jointly with Albedo. |
1992 | Established an optical fiber cable manufacturing and sales company as a joint venture with AT&T in the U.S. |
1992 | Started the manufacture of electronic wire cables and terminal processing in Indonesia. |
1993 | Merged with Furukawa Aluminum Co., Ltd. |
1995 | Established a manufacturing and sales company for automobile parts in the Republic of Korea. |
1996 | Established a manufacturing and sales company for copper rod in Vietnam. |
1996 | Established a manufacturing and sales company for automobile parts in Tianjin, China. |
1997 | Started operations of manufacturing company for high-voltage cross-linked polyethylene power cable in China. |
1997 | Established an electronics manufacturing subsidiary in Thailand. |
1997 | Established a merger for automotive harness operations in Hong Kong. |
1998 | Established Kyusyu Furukawa Denko Co., Ltd. for manufacturing and selling wires and cables. |
1999 | Canadian subsidiary for manufacturing and sales of optical passive components "JDS FITEL" merged with U.S. company for manufacturing and sales of light-emitting components "UNIPHASE" on equal terms. |
1999 | Sales subsidiary dealing with electronic component products established in Taiwan. |
2000 | Established a new sales company for aluminum products with Showa Denko K.K. and Nippon Steel Corporation; both companies stockholders of Sky Aluminum Co., Ltd. |
2000 | Established a joint venture company with Hitachi Cable, Ltd. for copper tube manufacturing in China. |
2001 | Established a joint venture company for optical fiber cable manufacturing in Indonesia. |
2001 | Formed business alliance between Power Cable Division and Fujikura Ltd. |
2001 | Bought out Lucent Technologies' optical fiber solution business. |
2001 | New automotive parts company established in Czech Republic. |
2002 | Established with Mitsui Chemical join forces to produce high power 980nm laser chips. |
2002 | Established a copper strip manufacturing company in China. |
2002 | Established a manufacturing and marketing company for reflow oven in Suzhou, China. |
2002 | Affiliate company established for optical fiber composite overhead ground wire (OPGW) in Jiangsu, China. |
2002 | Established with Furukawa Precision Engineering joint company in China to plate connector terminals with precious metals. |
2003 | Founded Furukawa America Inc. by consolidating three Furukawa sales and marketing companies for optoelectronics products in North America. |
2003 | Founded a new automotive part company in Indonesia. |
2003 | Founded Furukawa-Sky Aluminum Corporation from the merger of Furukawa's light metals company and Sky Aluminum Co., Ltd. |
2003 | Began alliance with French corporation, Valeo, for automotive wire harnesses. |
2005 | Founded Furukawa Electric Industrial Cable Co., Ltd. by consolidating industrial electric cable divisions of Furukawa Electric and Furukawa Industrial Cable Co., Ltd. |
2005 | Agreed upon purchasing Trocellen in Germany,a major company of cross-linked polyolefin foams. |
2007 | Founds Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc. by integrating the automotive parts division. |
2007 | Adopts the Furukawa Electric Group Philosophy and corporate message. |
2008 | Merges with subsidiary Furukawa Circuit Foil Co., Ltd. |
2009 | Establishes an optical fiber manufacturing company in India |
2009 | Establishes the Next-Generation Power Devices Partnership |
2010 | US subsidiary OFS Fitel, LLC establishes a manufacturing company for base materials of optical fibers jointly with a Chinese manufacturer |
2011 | Establishes a manufacturing and sales company of electrodeposited copper foils for lithium ion batteries in Taiwan |